Hi! On my system, which doesn't have libxml2, subversion fails to build: cd subversion/libsvn_ra_dav && /bin/sh /var/tmp/portage/subversion-1.2.3-r2/work/subversion-1.2.3/libtool --tag=CC --silent --mode=link i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -L/var/tmp/portage/subversion-1.2.3-r2/image//usr/lib -O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -DLINUX=2 -D_REENTRANT -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -D_GNU_SOURCE -pthread -DNEON_ZLIB -DNEON_SSL -L/usr/lib -rpath /usr/lib -o libsvn_ra_dav-1.la commit.lo fetch.lo file_revs.lo log.lo merge.lo options.lo props.lo session.lo util.lo ../../subversion/libsvn_delta/libsvn_delta-1.la ../../subversion/libsvn_subr/libsvn_subr-1.la /usr/lib/libaprutil-0.la -lgdbm -ldb-4.2 -lexpat /usr/lib/libapr-0.la -lrt -lm -lcrypt -lnsl -lpthread -ldl -lneon -lz -lssl -lcrypto -ldl -lxml2 -lz -lpthread -lm -lz grep: /usr/lib/libxml2.la: No such file or directory /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib/libxml2.la: No such file or directory libtool: link: `/usr/lib/libxml2.la' is not a valid libtool archive make: *** [subversion/libsvn_ra_dav/libsvn_ra_dav-1.la] Error 1 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... I think dev-libs/libxml2 should be added to RDEPEND. Best regards Christian Schlotter
No. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 109350 ***